What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.
GUY RITCHIEI’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
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I like death. I’m a big fan of it.
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I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.
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I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
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I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
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I’m single again and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m loving it at the moment. This is what I’ve been missing.
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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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It’s still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it’s sometimes hard work living with her.
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If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
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The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
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The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you’ve accomplished that, you’ve accomplished a lot.
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I don’t like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who’s not very good looking and doesn’t have much attention to style.
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It’s not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn’t.
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I like to think that we’ve got a plan, so let’s stick to it. That said, once we’ve stuck to it, we’re allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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I think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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I think there’s a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive process.
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We’re not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
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Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
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If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
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I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it’s a good crack and you feel you’re on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.
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I’d like to work with the missus, but there’s nothing in the pipeline at the moment.
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I live on a bicycle, I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
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We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we’re being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
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One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
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I like filming in the UK – I’ll sleep in my own bed, which I’m really happy about.
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I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.
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